Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit

Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2026; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Ananda Dhakal. Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit is installed on roughly 30,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.4/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.4CVE-2026-65473

Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit <= 4.9.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2026-07-22 00:00	Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit <= 4.9.12 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit <= 4.9.12	`CVE-2026-65473`	6.4 Medium	Ananda Dhakal	Yes

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Plugin Profile

Latestv4.9.12.1

Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit

Author

Nexcess

3.5(10)

70/100

Last Updated

2026-07-15 (2mo ago)

Active Installs

30,000+

Downloads

1,685,564

Requires WP

4.5+

Requires PHP

Tested up to

WP 6.9.7

Created

2014-01-22 (13y ago)

Custom Portfolio and Shortcode functionality for free Virtue, Ascend, and Pinnacle WordPress themes Not intended to work with any other themes. Features Included Shortcodes Columns Dividers Accordions Tabs Quotes and Block Quotes Buttons Icons Responsive Youtube Responsive Vimeo Portfolio Post Type – included metabox options for post sliders and three post layout options. Contact Form Page Template – includes page template that has options for a google map and a contact form. Gallery Styling for WordPress Gallery – this allows the Kadence Theme to override the WordPress gallery with theme specific styling. You can turn this off in the theme options > misc settings. Gallery Metaboxs for post and pages – allows for a gallery to be added to a post for a post slider or page for page slider using the featured template.

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